NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 97

• No tears in writer, no tears in the reader. – Robert Frost

• • There is nothing so powerful as truth – and often nothing so strange. – Daniel Webster
• • Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. – Albert Einstien
• • Be modest – and proud of it!
• • “Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”—John R. Wooden
• • Genuine spiritual faith (true moral consciousness) is revealed in that it: Contributes to the continued survival of altruism in spite of human selfishness, social antagonisms, industrial greeds, and political maladjustments."
• • Phone Down; Face Up!
• • “What you need to decide once and for all is: ‘I’m tired of being a servant to my ego.'”
• • “When you choose to help others out of attachment it often results in their generating attachment to you. It’s as if you’d sent a thief to steal their peace of mind. This kind of thief is much worse than the kind who simply steals your furniture. Peace of mind is much harder to replace than a few chairs. You can’t buy peace of mind in a store no matter how rich you are. Therefore, check up whether your assistance really helps or not. Does it solve problems or create more? “
• • “When you think, choose carefully The thoughts of things you’d like to be . . .Thoughts entertained in the minds of men Become Tomorrow’s objectified whims.”
• — Margaret Runyan Castaneda
• • Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. -Albert Einstein
• • “Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.”—Jerry Spinelli
• • "It is fatal to man's idealism when he is taught that all of his altruistic impulses are merely the development of his natural herd instincts. But he is ennobled and mightily energized when he learns that these higher urges of his soul emanate from the spiritual forces that indwell his mortal mind."